Search This Blog

Server Monitoring with Monit Tutorial

As you sit down for a lovely Christmas dinner with family and friends, your phone rings. The frantic client is on the line shouting that the server just went down. Don't you wish you had a helpful program that automatically monitors and restarts the servers automatically.

Monit is an open source process supervision program that monitoring your server processes and restarts failed services. It is easy to setup and relatively painless to use.

Here is a quick tutorial to configure Monit to monitor Apache and MySQL servers.